Is New Azure Website the only current option for running on Azure?
I have a current project with an extremely tight deadline and I may be required to put it on Azure. I don't want to use websites as they are shared and seem limited for my needs, I prefer a Web Role that I will deploy. I know the old accelerator used blob storage for the files and this worked well but is not longer available. I have searched far and wide for a solution to allow me to use blob storage for the files that are created through the the back office.
My requirements require some heavy powerpoint creation and manipulation I would like to offload to a worker process. It will also be accessed in over 10 countries around the world in every region. If I can have my files read from the blob this is trivial, I simply scale out my web roles, use sql azure, and setup queues and worker roles to handle the powerpoint work which is very resource intensive, perfect for a background process.
Any ideas here? I literally have a week for this. It totally caught me off guard I wasn't expecting this to be an issue.
--UPDATE In effect I can deploy all the files like cshtml, js and css no issue so the only real issue would be the media files. If I could back those images in that secion in blob storage I would be good. --UPDATE
Is New Azure Website the only current option for running on Azure?
I have a current project with an extremely tight deadline and I may be required to put it on Azure. I don't want to use websites as they are shared and seem limited for my needs, I prefer a Web Role that I will deploy. I know the old accelerator used blob storage for the files and this worked well but is not longer available. I have searched far and wide for a solution to allow me to use blob storage for the files that are created through the the back office.
My requirements require some heavy powerpoint creation and manipulation I would like to offload to a worker process. It will also be accessed in over 10 countries around the world in every region. If I can have my files read from the blob this is trivial, I simply scale out my web roles, use sql azure, and setup queues and worker roles to handle the powerpoint work which is very resource intensive, perfect for a background process.
Any ideas here? I literally have a week for this. It totally caught me off guard I wasn't expecting this to be an issue.
--UPDATE
In effect I can deploy all the files like cshtml, js and css no issue so the only real issue would be the media files. If I could back those images in that secion in blob storage I would be good.
--UPDATE
Thanks
Geoff
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